Banana stains on clothes

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on March 8, 2010 at 4:55pm

eep, this is one thing i have no answers for. wonder if anyone else has any ideas? i will google it.

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Permalink Reply by Etomia Wilson on March 8, 2010 at 5:04pm

I have the same problem! Damn banana on all my white bibs makes them look dirty. I am banning banana it bungs her up anyway!

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on March 8, 2010 at 6:10pm

yeah i was pretty banana shy when my little boy was at the mushed up banana eating stage. it just makes the most horrific stains. i had a "banana bib" that i used religiously every time he had banana ... it started out lemon yellow and ended up almost brown all over!

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on March 8, 2010 at 6:09pm

There are nasty stains on my fave white linen pants of my little girl's. I was hoping the sun would bleach them like it does with all other food stains but no, not this time :o(

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on March 8, 2010 at 6:11pm

worth a google - linen is fabric that should let go of stains? i saw some ideas when i googled it ...

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Permalink Reply by Angela L on March 8, 2010 at 7:42pm

I just found that repeated soaking and washing and hanging in the sun did the trick, but it took about four or five goes before it went away, until that happened, the tops were relegated to being 'ugly, around the house clothes'. Some of the colour of the fabric disappeared in the process though; but I'd rather have fading than stains.

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Permalink Reply by Etomia Wilson on March 10, 2010 at 5:20pm

Thanks Angela I tried the repeated soak and wash method after four days of soaking a washing got the banana stains out with Napisan Oxy action Max. I think the trick was to use warm water to dissovle the powder then soak in warm water.

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Permalink Reply by Angela L on March 11, 2010 at 8:17pm

Oh good - it is the hard way though.. I found that the cheapie soak powder (clorox or something) actually did a better job than the more expensive napisan, much to my delight

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Permalink Reply by Jess Cordes on March 8, 2010 at 9:32pm

Just feed your child bananas in old clothes! This way your nice clothes don't get ruined! I love my daughter eating bananas cause it's a super food like avocado.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on March 10, 2010 at 7:03pm

hell yea, my boy has banana every morning for breakfast, it's his fav, and I don't mind if his bibs get stained better the bibs that his clothes

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Permalink Reply by Heather Goode on March 8, 2010 at 9:55pm

It's funny how the adverts for washing powders say "blood, chocolate, ingrained dirt". Well how about banana? Who would have thought it would be so hard to remove. Maybe the first washing powder that does the trick could advertise it and we would all buy.

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Permalink Reply by Liesje Bradley on March 9, 2010 at 12:22am

A good old block of sard wonder soap is amazing, not the spray stuff but the block. I always try to rinse the item of clothing ASAP and the sard along with a good scrub seems to shift it.

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